[Closed] A row of evenly spaced spoons...

Go and mess with his pencils. They hate that.

It seems that the whole of the rest of the office spends its time pushing his spoons back into the sink.

Have you got any superglue? They hate that too 🙂

replace a spoon with a "spork" that'll mess with his head

You'll soon be polishing his spoons when he "re configures" the proxy to stop you logging onto STW!!!

....IT prick at my work who every dress down Friday still turns up in his suit and tie.....

In my IT department, we have no dress policy. There's a dick here who comes in a suit Monday to Thursday and has his OWN dress down Friday.

I quite like a nice orderly row of spoons...

Holy fwck there are some strange people out there!

Luckily this guy is 'data solutions' he has no technical knowledge whatsover....

goon - that's the funniest thing I've ever heard.

We have Marketing pricks, Finance pricks and sales pricks in my company, amongst others.
What type of prick are you yeti?

goon - that's the funniest thing I've ever heard.

Christ you should get out more. 😉

Finance prick... this IT prick is costing the company >3k per annum to clean spoons.

Christ you should get out more

and the spork idea, that was funny too... 😆

Anyway, I've got pencils to sharpen.

Go easy on the poor guy, it's not his fault he's locked in an obsessive autistic hell of a life where dirty un-organised spoons are everywhere...

As for dressing down - MOST of the IT staff at Companies House wear smart clothes and ties despite there being no dress policy - and they dress down on Fridays too.

the problem with sharpening your pencils is making sure they are all the same length after you've sharpened them.

If it all goes wrong you end up with a desk covered in inch long stubs and a bin full of wood shavings.

If you really want to screw with him, break a few plates, bowls and cups and then replace them with random others, the mix of un-matching crockery will be too much for him to cope with 😈

He thanked me for putting my bowl in the dishwasher today... 'its not your clucking kitchen mate'. This guy makes me want to smash something!!

wwaswas - 😆

My wife was showing traces of OCD in her house cleanliness obsessions. It did my head in until one day she fessed up to her problem with the immortal words "I know I have an issue with keeping the house clean. I'm really sorry. It's my problem and I don't expect you want to keep it as as clean as I seem to want to. I'll work around you". Result! No more cleaning for me and no guilt complex!

OCDs suffers are great. Go on, admit it - if there were no clean mugs, spoons etc to hand it would be a right faff trying to find some. You have your own gimp there making sure you never have to go a searching!

the IT staff at Companies House wear smart clothes and ties despite there being no dress policy - and they dress down on Fridays too.

Ok, so there's a load of dicks at Companies House too.... 😉

I'm not saying anything more on the subject 🙂

In my IT department, we have no dress policy. There's a dick here who comes in a suit Monday to Thursday and has his OWN dress down Friday

i laughed - then realised i do that. no dress code - but the guys i share an office with 'invented' a dress down friday!!

currently sat in my ssuk08 T shirt.

I work at home.

I try and get dressed before 9am because it feels 'wierd' talking to colleagues and customers in a dressing gown.

>3k per annum to clean spoons.

Send him to my work he'll have a field day cleaning up after the lazy gits who leave dishes in the sink and put them away unwashed.

So the guy likes to dress smart every day of the week and you follow the crowd?

We should do wear a dress fridays. I'm currently wearing a cheekly little thing from monsoon.

Tis a tad funny to see, but ultimately it's hardly something to get wound up about is it. I mean there are bigger fish to fry than worrying that someone has OCD tendencies and likes to thank you for keeping the communal kitchen clean.

Not today there's not... today is disturb Mr OCD day.

Nice try Drac but if he dresses like that at home then the guy is a nutter... just the way he speaks (including to his kids on the phone) suggests axe murderer tendancies to me.

[Edit] Nicely polished, arranged in descending order of size, axe murderer tendancies[Edit]

just the way he speaks (including to his kids on the phone) s

Wow. Are you stalking him? Is this some type of reverse psychology?

TSY - you worry me more than he would - why are you paying such close attention to other guys in your office? I think someone here should take a step back and look at themselves in the mirror! 🙂

[i]Nice try Drac but if he dresses like that at home then the guy is a nutter[/i]

How do you know he dresses like this at home?

Haha, no he used to be sat opposite me... 'see you in the morrow' was his departing farewell.

He seems to get moved around the office quite frequently.... now sat in a cubby hole normally used for external contractors, seems no one can stand him.

[b]if[/b] he dresses like that at home then the guy is a nutter

OCD has its place. Our baby sitter has it and everytime she's round the kids rooms look they've been on a photoshoot for some Home Magazine.

only one thing for it.

trousers and pants off, then bumslide along his desk. like a dog.

magic.

[i]OCD has its place. Our baby sitter has it and everytime she's round the kids rooms look they've been on a photoshoot for some Home Magazine.[/i]

I've got a friend like that, it's great, you leave her in a room for 2 minutes, come back and everything is neatly arranged.
It would take me a whole day to achieve a similar effect 🙂

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This is going back to when I started here (in '94) and things are different now but...

After I was offered this job I was asked to come onto site a few days before starting to sort a few bits and bobs out. As I was being walked off-site the guy from HR said "We don't have a dress code here but everyone on your grade wears a shirt and tie". So I turned up on my first day in suit, shirt and tie, got a few odd looks and gradually it dawned that [u]everyone[/u] on my grade wore trousers, shirt and tie. [b]Managers[/b] wore a suit.

Like I say, things are very different now and I wear pretty much what I like depending on what I'm doing and who I'm meeting. There is a general slide towards casualness as the week goes on.

Anyway, spoons - put the slightly off-kilter and spray them with contact nerve toxin?

This thread has reduced me to giggling like a girl, love it 😀

Bumslide FTW

hahaha - salad fingers strikes again! class!

Wait a minute... an IT guy in a suit? Something's wrong here...

He's just printed himself a sign for his cubby hole.... it's a tube station sign with 'Information' written on it.

Which reminds me of a girl who worked in IT Support at a previous company who had a sign for her desk reading 'Out to lunch, back at 1pm' yet she'd be sat there!

'Rachel could you tell me ....? '

And she'd point at her sign.

My ex-girlfriend may have been a little OCD... Tins in the cupboard, alphabetically left-to-right, older ones at the front, make top-to-bottom. Glasses has to be "just-so". I never did the vacuumming right, so she did it again... twice. And she couldn't handle water going down the plug-hole anti-clockwise - soon as she heard water draining, she'd sprint through the house to make sure the water was draining clockwise. Oh, and she asked me to paint the house... EVERY MONTH. Somehow, I never got around to it... We only lasted a year. 😆

Cleaned by an anally retentive obsessive IT prick at my work who every dress down Friday still turns up in his suit and tie..... freeeeak!!!!

some people like to look tidy.
if he is comfy in a suit and tie.....

Olly he looks starched to within an inch of his life.... but I'm guessing you enjoy wearing a tie at the weekends. Good on you!

Maybe he likes to dresses as a French maid (other stereotypical costumes are available) on the weekend and so wears a tie during the week to feel more 'manly' and for a greater contrast between the two?!

Our neighbour used to come out to do the gardening in a tie.

He was old tho, so fair play I suppose.

My wife cannot eat odd numbers of different coloured sweeties. If say I am driving and she is getting me something like skittles or dolly mixtures, she sorts through them before handing me mine. Took me a while to ask what she was doing - she's making sure she has two of the various colours, and giving me the surplus.

hahaha - salad fingers strikes again! class!

May I enquire about your spoons? - MAGIC cheers M_F and OCD spoon guy!